@throwaway59: "<quote>
Based on the above, maybe they used some disk-shaped pasta that
might otherwise been used for a ravioli. It almost looks like
knuckle-marks have been imbedded in them. So how is this for a theory:
Take a disk of pasta in your non-dominant hand. With your other hand
make a fist and gently smack the pasta disk with your fist. It would
probably be the knuckles between the first and second set of finger 
joints. Curl the disk-holding hand and remove your fist. As you remove
said smacking fist, apply slight pressure to the pasta, forcing the
edges up and over to make the curled edges visible in the photo. 
Just a guess.
JD "this was just an excuse to say 'smack the pasta' in context" S"
    @stevecaple: "<quote>
Er, uh, the longest one I could find (the black in the photo with the ruler
- a machinist's rule divided into 10ths and 100ths of an inch) was an 1 3/4
inches long and only about 1/4 or 5/16 wide, so it would have to be
something between Barbie's knuckles and mine  -  or maybe (as Andrew noted)
some small person's teeth.
I can picture tiny, wizened Calabrian women sitting there, rolling small
disks of pasta into cigar shapes and then biting them between uper teeth
and lower lip.
 Steve"
    @throwaway59: "On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:58:35 -0700, Steve Caple
<quote>
Well... uhm.... crap! I guess that theory is shot to hell.
Ruler, huh? I knew the strange black marks on the metal thing had some
sort of meaning. Wish I had paid more attention to that part of the
picture. No chance those were some sort of strange trick markings or
something, I guess?  
Ok, there may still be a little life in the horse, let me take another
shenry@example.org. The pasta would have *shrunk* as it dried. Maybe children
made them?
Yes, I see some pathetic little Oliver Twist style sweatshop. The
poor tykes shaping the pasta for the rich master, hunger gnawing at
their tiny little bellies. Risking life and limb by sneaking a nibble
when the overlord isn't looking... aw nuts. Even I don't buy it.
JD "it was still a damn fine theory, though" S  "
    @throwaway59: "On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:16:10 -0700, Steve Caple
<quote>
*>snort<* Them'd be some day-um big noodles.
I can see the cooking instructions:
Into 6 gallons of boiling water, carefully lower one piece
of pasta. Boil 45 minutes until tender. Serves 12.
JD "lightly coat with one pint of olive oil" S"
    @stevecaple: "And now I've just sent Andrew a shot of the finished product  -  rainbow
beans with rock shrimp.
 Steve"
    @bilotta78: "<quote>
Not when cooked for so long :)
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
[W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and
tyrants.
	 Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787"
    @bilotta78: "<quote>
Welcome "Stick-Like-Glue" :)
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
Axiom I of the Giuseppe Bilotta
theory of IT:
Anything is better than MS"
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